AUCKLAND AND TARANAKI.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 75, 4 December 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

AUCKLAND AND TARANAKI.

From the New Zealand Adcerliser of the 27th ult, we extract the following. Tim news received from Auckland and Taranaki by thes.s. Claud Hamilton which arrived yesterday may bit summed up very briefly yet it is nevertheless of an important character. The Governor had been on. a visit to his island '.some and returned to Auckland on the 21st. King Pot a tan has issued a Gazette containing an otlicial proclamation to the effect “that no roads should be allowed to be made though the King territories, that the steamer should not be allowed on the Waikato river and the question of settling the title of Waitara by arbitration should not be reopened.” Wc know that a steamer will be put on the Waikato river whatever his Majesty may say, and whether ho allows it or not wc shall soon see, therefore, whether his words have any meaning. The Colonial Secretary had at last reached the capital, so we shall soon know what the Ministry’ purpose doing. Heed call at Taranaki on his way up when a deputation waited upon him to ascertain what his views were with reference to the state of affairs there. The Herald says : “The interview was not strictly formal nor were categoricalanswersgot tothe several questions because Mr. Domett wished to have them in the form of a letter that he might consult his colleagues upon and give a written answer to, which ho promises to do by return of the steamer—a much more satisfactory arrangement for both parties than when done by mouth —but he did not leave us without the means of judging what those answers are likely to be. With regard to compensation as it is called here, restoration or re-establishment as it is called elsewhere, he said that a part of the money voted by the General Assembly should be distributed immediately and the whole of it at the end of the summer if by that time nothing was done to reinstate the Province. As to the still important point of the future security of life and proper! v in this district and the means of attaining it, it was evident from what was said joined with what Sir George Grey has himself said already several times that the reason which restrained the Government from punishing the Southern natives is the fear of a general rising. That is no doubt true —a very large part of the natives in the Island being as ready for an outbreak as dry tow is for burning—but that the I lung feared will be avoided by delay is very doubtful unless by means which no civilised people could submit to. Cases like that at Wbaugaehu will have to bo dealt with by somo authority or the settlers will invitably become administrators of the law themselves and no one can blame them if they do. However, the question of the wisdom of delaying the crisis is one on which opinion may be honestly divided, and it is at last satisfactory to see the atUnnative side of it adopted on legitimate grounds without (ho usual cant. The only other thing spoken of we believe, was a scheme which the government lias in contemplation which may considerably effect the fortunes of the province if carried out, and that is the introduction of a largo number of immigrants from Europe and their location upon the unoccupied bush lauds (of which there arc still about 30,000 acres) as a half military settlement —the cost of their bringing out, and of their land or a part of it to bo repaid by a certain term of military service and by work on the roads. This scheme at earliest will be rather late for our present troubles, but it may add greatly to our future strength and security.”